This Canadian combo has been brought to my attention via the Gilles Peterson show as they do jazz covers of hip-hop tunes and have just released their 2nd LP which is available for free download here : http://badbadnotgood.com/ As they state on their bandcamp page : “No one above the age of 21 was involved [...]
Archive for the ‘Hip Hop’ Category
Precocious youngsters make brilliant LP non-shocker
Posted in 2010s, Hip Hop, Jazz, Randomness on April 15, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Liberal Baiting with Azealia Banks & Germaine Greer (NSFW)
Posted in 2010s, Hip Hop, Profound on November 10, 2011 | 40 Comments »
They still say “fuck you” as a venomous insult; they still find “cunt” the most degrading epithet outside the dictionary Germaine Greer, 1970. Forty-one years on, and Azealia Banks has defused the power of the word, reclaiming it from the language of hate by placing it firmly at the forefront of a hip hop house [...]
For Steenbeck, Happy Birthday!
Posted in 2010s, Hip Hop on June 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
For you, on your birthday, I think I may have unearthed the only bit of middle-class rap music in the whole wide world. “My white t-shirt fits right around my waist, not down to my knees, yo thug where I’m from we call that a dress…Tiger Woods; he’s my nigger!”
Happy Birthday, Steenbeck!
Posted in Hip Hop, tagged Birthday on June 25, 2011 | 15 Comments »
We’d better not overlook this one. Checked the “archives” & as far as can tell, Sunday is the day. We beat birthday songs to death, on RR, a few weeks back; so here’s an hour or so (with interval) of DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist performing Brainfreeze. When you get a chance, kick back with [...]
Do you dream in colour, or black and white?
Posted in Hip Hop, Indie, tagged music video on November 5, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Courtesy of the latest Ninja Tune newsletter a fantastic video for a fine music clip from DELS and Hot Chip.
Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip
Posted in 2000s, 2010s, Hip Hop, Literature, tagged gig, politics on November 2, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I went to see this strangely monikered duo last night in Brighton and it’s stayed with me so I’m posting a rare spillage in homage. Sold out last April much to my disappointment I made sure tickets were purchased way in advance this time around. They wouldn’t sell out twice in one year thought would [...]
2000 Pt. 2
Posted in 2000s, Electronica, Hip Hop, Indie, Pop on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Time Is Now – Moloko Good Fortune – PJ Harvey Gravel Pit – Wu-Tang Clan Hip Hop – dead prez Adore – I:Cube Concentrate – The Czars Slowly, Surely – Jill Scott Ancoats 2 Zambia – The Baby Namboos Two Seconds – Laura Cantrell B.O.B. – Outkast
2000
Posted in 2000s, Electronica, Hip Hop, Pop, Soul on October 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Ms Jackson – Outkast Strung Out – Drugs Camping Jazz – Chateaux Flight Where Have You Been – Jay-Z Our Way To Fall – Yo La Tengo Finally – Kings Of Tomorrow Man With The Red Face – Laurent Garnier If I Ever Feel Better – Phoenix Since I Left You – Avalanches Africa – [...]
Bonita Applebum – A Tribe Called Quest Cherry-Coloured Funk – Cocteau Twins Groove Is In The Heart – Deee-Lite Welcome To The Terrordome – Public Enemy Sons & Daughters – Neville Brothers Black Boys On Mopeds – Sinead O’Connor Elli Shatr Enhaa Tgannen – Samir Ali & Sahar Hamdy Only Love Can Break Your Heart [...]
Freakin’ Flows
Posted in Hip Hop, Jazz, tagged hip hop samples on August 30, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I feel the need for some stress relief, so here’s another hip hop-sample post. Binary Star’s tension releasing Freakin’ Flows, based on Ramsey Lewis’ equally relaxing Wanderin’ Rose.
Unfamiliar Energy
Posted in 1960s, Film, Hip Hop, Musing, Randomness on August 18, 2010 | 34 Comments »
Two things came to mind when I saw this clip, first David Cameron and this Charlie Brooker piece, especially this bit: Like an ostensibly realistic human character in a state-of-the-art CGI cartoon, he’s almost convincing – assuming you can ignore the shrieking, cavernous lack of anything approaching a soul. Which you can’t. I see the [...]
NilpfHop (Instrumental Hippohop, part 3)
Posted in Hip Hop, tagged instrumental on August 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Ammoncontact get a latin workover. The best instrumental hip-hop creates a mood: film themes are often used or adapted, as in Leftfield’s Space March, reworking John Barry’s capsule munching soundtrack to You Only Live Twice. MF Doom weaves similarly dramatic soundscapes out of old Spiderman cartoons, while DJ’s Krush and Shadow mine old funk and [...]
We bumped our heads against the clouds…
Posted in 2000s, blues, Hip Hop, Psychedelia, Soul on July 31, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I don’t get in here much, but I hope this contribution will be welcome. In bed with a summer cold, looking for a summer music cure to enable me to get up and make some long-awaited rhubarb and ginger jam (yes, SatanKidneyPie, it’s coming, really it is) I found this… Slate magazine has included a [...]
RJD2 In rare form
Posted in Hip Hop, tagged instrumental hip-hop, samples on July 30, 2010 | 14 Comments »
A track from RJD2′s instrumental hip-hop album In Rare Form, which I’m enjoying at the moment. This particular track is reworked from Quincy Jones’ Money Runner, as a poster points out.
Mala’s Back
Posted in Hip Hop, World on July 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In true Maki style (ie. about three months late) I thought I’d just let those of you who are interested know that my favourite Spanish hip hop artist, La Mala Rodríguez, released “Dirty Bailarina” in April. It’s not as ballsy as Alevosía and she seems to have more of a groove thing going on this [...]
One For Steenbeck
Posted in Hip Hop, Indie on June 27, 2010 | 26 Comments »
Claire, cos you like The Clash and hip-hop, here’s the UK grime approximation for ya (I know I may have posted this before, so apols if so) Hope you had a good one sweetie.
New Orleans Special
Posted in blues, Funk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Tributes, tagged neville, new orleans, toussaint on May 11, 2010 | 43 Comments »
A small representation of New Orleans and Louisiana music, mostly by artists from the area, inspired by Treme and a funeral I attended where the body was introduced by a New Orleans style band, featuring Crescent City legends such as Allen Toussaint, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and the Nevilles a few of the tracks [...]
In the beginning…
Posted in 2000s, Hip Hop, tagged football, half man half biscuit, k'naan on May 5, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I was excited when I first heard that every thinking ‘Spiller’s favourite Somali-Canadian rapper K’Naan was providing the theme song for the World Cup. Then I heard the execrable travesty that is the official Coke-endorsed version of Wavin’ Flag. Proof that it’s impossible to make a good football record (unless, of course, you’re Half Man [...]
It was a very good year
Posted in 1990s, Hip Hop, Podcasts on April 22, 2010 | 42 Comments »
Here’s my podcast! 1. I’m sorry! It’s extremely inarticulate and not well-explained, and I SWEAR my vocabulary is bigger than this! 2. I’m sorry, but it’s all hip hop, and I know that a) people who like hip hop will have heard everything in here b) people who don’t like hip hop won’t probably listen. [...]
RIP Guru
Posted in Hip Hop, Tributes, Uncategorized on April 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A real Hip Hop giant has gone.
UK Hip-hop – What’s Happening – Part 2
Posted in Hip Hop, Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on March 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
They may call it “crackhouse” (oh why oh why oh why) but there’s no denying that this one’s a bit of a banger and may rehabilitate Ms Dynamite…hold on **ring ring** **ring ring** Blimpy “Hi” MIA “Hi Blimps, you posting up on DJ Zinc?” B: “Yeah, I was actually -remember his D&B tunes from way [...]
UK Rap -What’s going on?
Posted in Hip Hop, Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on March 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Wiley gets his rock on – old skool drum n bass with a steal from possibly the oddest UK number one there’s been. . .What next for UK hip-hop? Any tips, ‘Spillers?
